Barbecue Nation: One Man's Journey to Great Grilling

by Fred Thompson

Barbecue Nation is a culinary mosaic of what 14 million Americans like to do most when it comes to cooking--make dinner at the grill. Author Fred Thompson has searched across the U.S. for America's best backyard cooks and their favorite recipes--not chefs' fancy interpretations of barbecue classics or pitmasters' ways with barbecue that the reader can't reproduce at home, but 350 recipes that are easy to recreate in anybody's backyard. The book reflects America's ever-changing populations, with recipes with the flavors of Cuba from South Florida, or Brooklyn-born Jamaican jerk, or the taste of Vietnam from the coast of Texas, as well as the country's regional bounties, including grilled salmon recipes from the Pacific Northwest, brats from the Midwest, and Delta Grilled Catfish.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

384 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2007

About the author

Fred Thompson is a chef and food author from Raleigh, North Carolina.


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Reviews

[C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

All the recipies in here look great, and it seems to cover almost every type and definition of "BBQ" - from grilling to smoking to actual barbecue in its myriad form accross the south. As soon as I get the few supplies I need to set up my Weber to do slow, indirect heat, I'm trying a 6 hour recipe for pulled pork out on our roof . . .

[Allison · Rating 4 out of 5]

The lime cilantro chicken is very good.